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The pension bailout hidden within the COVID relief bill

The $2 trillion in new spending just enacted by congressional Democrats is a COVID relief bill in name only. It’s plenty of money all right, but so little of it goes to fighting the pandemic it brings to mind an observation attributed to Benjamin Franklin concerning an ox that had been mistaken for a bull.

“He’s thankful for the honor,” the great man supposedly said, “but he’d much rather have rest…

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